kennedy and herbert hoover, he was called herbert junior but i think he was herbert charles hoover. he was undersecretary of state starting in the second eisenhower term and was acting secretary of state when john foster dulles suffered a heart attack. more specifically, he was acting secretary of state during the suez crisis. he played a critical role and i think there was added discussion of appointing herbert hoover jr. as secretary of state when dulles retired after the first term. but they chose christian her, another hoover man. another person who had served in the famine relief years. that hee's no question played a critical role in the administration. >> could you talk little bit about how hoover and eisenhower dealt with joe mccarthy? mr. walch: as far as i know, there was not a lot of discussion -- the topic never came up between the two of them discussing that as an issue. there is no documents that represent any direct communication on political issues. there is no question that joe mccarthy was a burr under eisenhower's saddle. the whole question of how to deal with it

herbert hoover. this hour-long event is rfa day-long conference titled, presidential partnerships: present -- herbert hoover instrument, and eisenhower. >> it's a great pleasure to introduce the left speaker. timothy walch received an award. he served in various capacities with the national archives and records administration of which this institution is part of that large organization. until his retirement in 2011, beginning as a program analyst with the national historical publications and records commission, tim served as budget and a list, codirector of the modern archives institute, chief of publication development before landing in west branch as the assistant director of the herbert hoover presidential library and museum. and finally, rector of the same organization from 93-2011 area -- 1993-2011. he edited more than 2200 books, including the correspondence between hoover and eisenhower, as well as numerous articles, essays, book reviews, executive entries, and newspaper articles. -- encyclope

herbert hoover. formal remarks. i wish to pay my special tribute to herbert hoover. i am always proud to honor those who have been recognized by ,heir fellow men as great men as great americans, as great humans. among these, herbert hoover stand in the first score. his great human qualities are known throughout the world. so long as the english language is spoken, so long as there is a nation we will remember herbert hoover with the greatest gratitude." so what are we to make of the partnership between hoover and eisenhower? the available documents show frustration, collaboration, and eventual closure and life in public service. that hoover had high hopes for his work, is without question. that he was disappointed with progress was also not in doubt. perhaps he had to hike and exit dictation for the eisenhower years. we will never know. what is not in doubt is that through his multiple attributions to both the truman and eisenhower administrations, antier made a substitu difference in the administrat

nash to write a multivolume biography of herbert hoover. the three volumes that resulted in the life of herbert hoover , the engineer, the humanitarian of emergencies, remains the most thorough treatment of prisoners life from the president's life from birth through the end of his work in the wilson administration as head of the food administration. he expertly edited hoover's unpublished writings, and the crusade years, herbert hoover's lost memoir. as one of our archivists described george, he is someone who will forget more than i will ever know about herbert hoover. dr. nash is currently working on a study of herbert hoover and franken roosevelt. that's franklin -- and franklin roosevelt. his talk today is entitled the great engineer." [applause] dr. nash: thank you for that very gracious and generous introduction. good morning, everyone. it is a pleasure to be in your company here at the herbert hoover presidential library. as most of you in the audience know, this was my research home for approximately 20 years. and it remains my rese

hoover/book -- herbert hoover's last book. this is what truman would say of their friendship. my warmth and close friendship with herbert hoover dates back to the day he visited washington shortly after i succeeded to the presidency. i was moved to invite him back into public service in the hope he might resume the task of again seed -- feeding the hungry in the wake of the fight -- frightful devastation visited on so many human beings in many parts of the world. i wanted to help restore as quickly as possible, friend and foe alike, to their normal lives into their peaceful pursuits. president hoover did not hesitate, nor did he weigh the matter of personal convenience or even hardship. he accepted at once. the meeting between him and me at the white house is now history. hungryk in feeding the express to their care and generosity of all americans, regardless of political differences. president hoover and i have visited each other frequently. whenever either one of us happened in the neighborhood of the other, they felt free t

yours faithfully, herbert hoover. truman would write from independence, missouri on generate second, 1963. he still called hoover, dear mr. president. you will never know how much i appreciated your letter of december 19, 1962. in fact, i was overcome because you state the situation much better than i could. so i will quote you for your friendship, i am deeply grateful. most sincerely, harry truman. herbert hoover would die shortly before noon on october 20, 1964. harry truman would telegraph hoover's sons that day, expressing his deep sadness and how he wasn't able to come to the funeral due to a recent injury. later, in june of 1965, truman would publish this eulogy as a preface to herbert hoover/book -- herbert hoover's last book. this is what truman would say of their friendship. my warmth and close friendship with herbert hoover dates back to the day he visited washington shortly after i succeeded to the presidency. i was moved to invite him back into public service in the hope he might resume the task of again s

yours safely, herbert hoover. truman would write from independence, missouri on generate second, 1963. he still called hoover, dear mr. president. you will never know how much i appreciated your letter of december 19, 1962. in fact, i was overcome because you state the situation much better than i could. so i will quote you for your friendship, i am deeply grateful. most sincerely, harry truman. herbert hoover would die shortly before noon on october 20, 1964. harry truman would telegraph hoover's sons that day, expressing his deep sadness and how he wasn't able to come to the funeral due to a recent injury. later, in june of 1965, truman would publish this eulogy as a preface to herbert hoover/book -- herbert hoover's last book. this is what truman would say of their friendship. my warmth and close friendship with herbert hoover dates back to the day he visited washington shortly after i succeeded to the presidency. i was moved to invite him back into public service in the hope he might resume the task of again s

i could suspect they were taken by their daughter-in-law, herbert hoover jr.'s wife, margaret watson, because they're family films of their children, peggy anne and herbert hoover, iii, dubbed pete. you can see them in some of the films playing with their pet collie named ruby. another one peggy anne is rolling around with a little play stroller and playing with pete with a bucket, and i think looks like she is dumping a bucket of water on his head. not a very nice little sister but, you know, sibling rivalry starts early i guess. >> these really have the feel of a home movie. what's more, when you look at them from our perspective from 2017, they feel very new. it is almost like looking at the white house current day, scenes of the south lawn, et cetera. >> right. you see, you know, hoover and his cabinet members and some friends playing what would eventually become hoover ball. they're kind of tosing around a medicine ball on the lawn. you can see the eisenhower executive building before it was named eisenhower in the background. the rose garden, there's a sc

nash is our foremost authority on the life and times of herbert hoover. receiving a phd from harvard university, nash's dissertation, the conservative intellectual movement in america since 1945, was quickly published and remains a seminal study on this topic. on the recommendation of william f. buckley, hoover presidential library association, now the hooverre

partnerships, herbert hoover and trolling, coolidge, -- truman, and eisenhower. welcome back to the second half of our conference. starting off this afternoon is a

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from the morning of may 28, 1945, this would end herbert hoover's isolation from the white house. a meeting in the oval office that would last 35 minutes, but create a friendship that would last until hoover's death in 1964. write -- itsked to was several pages, but this was a couple sentences. , yes weesident truman did tell him what i thought of the food situation. i replied that the situation was degenerating all over the world, partly due to the war and partly to mismanagement. he had to take it as it is and there was no time to be bothered with recruit nation. hunger meant communism -- those were hoover's lines. .ruman would always be brief he had a two lined memorandum versus four pages. , dear hoover, thank you for your memorandum. it will be very useful for me. p.s.--i appreciate you coming to see me. it gave me a left. we discussed our prima donna's and what makes them. some of our boys that came in with me are having trouble with their dignity. it is hell when a man gets in close with the president. truman likes to use hell a lot in his writings. in his memoirs historian

presidency, ross kennedy talks about herbert hoover's relationship with woodrow wilson and his role in the wilson administration until the falling out in 1920. mr. kennedy is an illinois state university history professor. this event is part of the herbert hoover residential library and museum's daylong conference titled, presidential partnerships. herbert hoover and residents wilson's, >> ross kennedy's professor of history at illinois state university. he specializes in united states formulations and international to 1965.rom 1914 woodrow wilson and world war i are of special interest having written a prize-winning book. .he will to believe editor of " ao companion to woodrow wilson." please welcome ross kennedy. [applause] professor kennedy: thank you .ery much for that introduction thank you to the hoover library and foundation for organizing this conference. just walking around the museum for coming up here, it is really impressive. if you get a chance, go look at the exhibits, they are great. the --e first president that hoover was involved with. i think woodrow wilson was the mo

saw herbert hoover day beforored and had a pleasant conversation on food, and the general troubles of u.s. presidents. we discussed or prima do not as and what makes them. some of my boys are having trouble with dignity and prerogative. it is hell when a man gets in close association with the president. truman likes to use hell a lot in his writings. in his memoirs years later, some historians have faulted him for the exact details of this first meeting, but certainly truman recorded the spirit of the occasion. the call, the respect, the urgency, the drama, and even the humor as he noticeded that hoover remembered the way to the oval office. >> watch the entire program on our weekly series, the presidency, at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on sunday. american history tv, only on c-span 3. >> this year marks the 100th anniversary of buffalo bill's death and the buffalo bill center of the west in cody, wyoming. they hosted a symposium. paul feinbaum delivered the keynote address. he described how william cody became a symbol of the frontier and influenced american perception of western

thanks to the herbert hoover library foundation for organizing this conference. it's really impressive. if you get a chance to come at you should go and look at the exhibits because they're great. -- woodrow wilson was the most important president that hoover had a relationship with. it's hard to see how hoover could have advanced as far as he did in american politics. of woodrow wilson that hoover went from being a relatively unknown mining engineer in 1914 to just six years later being a serious candidate for the presidency. he was good at the task the administration had him perform. hoover was an exceptionally able administrator of large-scale complex organization dealing with a wide variety of war related problems. even wilson administration officials who clashed with wilson'such as , wouldry of the treasury have admitted that hoover was effective at managing his assignments. still, being an effective manager is no guarantee of steadily rising to power in american politics. what hoover also had in abundance was political skill. in some ways hoover was ill-sui

here is a preview. 1945, morning of may 28, this would end herbert hoover's isolation from the white house. a meeting in the oval office that would last 55 minutes to create a friendship that would last until hoover's death in 1964. hoover was asked to write -- he loved to write memorandums, and it was several pages. this is just a couple sentences. i saw president truman at 10:30 a.m. he asked me what i thought of the food situation. i replied the situation was degenerating all over the world, partly due to the war and partly due to mismanagement. he had to take it as it is and there was no time to be bothered with recrimination. there is resistance in hunger, and hunger meant communism. truman would always be brief and the. a two lined memorandum. he would write, do your hoover, thanks a lot for your memorandum. he added aps. i appreciate your coming to see me. it gave me a lift. in his private writing, he would write, soccer herbert hoover and had a pleasant conversation on food and the general troubles of u.s. presidents. two in particular. we discussed our prima donnas and what

herbert hoover jr.'s wife, margaret watson because they're family films of their children, peggy ann and the third dubbed pete. you can see him in some of the films playing with their pet, polly. named ruby. another one peggy ann's rolling around with a little play stroller. and playing with pete with a bucket. looks she put a bucket of water on his head. not very nice of sister, but sibling rivalry starts early, i guess. >> these really do have the feel of a home movie. what's more when you look at them, from our perspective, from 2017, they feel very new. it's almost like looking at the white house current day. scenes of the south lawn, et cetera. >> right. you see the hoover and his cabinet members and some friends playing what would eventually become hoover ball. they're kind of tossing around a medicine ball on the lawn. you can see the eisenhower executive office building before it was nameded eisenhower in the background. the rose garden, there's a scene where you see alonso field, one of the butl

bush $19, herbert hoover $10, george herbert walker bush $9, which turns out to be the lowest. abraham lincoln, $15. harry truman is the lowest at eight dollars. the highest is reagan, $29. some of the non-government places is $18. james madison is $22. what you think of a $29 entrance fee per person? anthony: the money is primarily going to the foundation, the national archives for one. some folks say, especially some officials in the national archives, they say, well, our role is to preserve and make available the records and we have appropriated funds for that. the foundations get to charge their portion of admission to help defray their costs. most of the exhibits are, the stuff of the exhibit, right, physical, the screens and the printed materials and the cases, those are paid for by the foundation. the people who work on the exhibits, who help curate are a mix. they believe the foundations are meant to help support the ongoing efforts at public programming and exhibits at speaker series and educational programming, so they, they tend to acquiesce to the foundation's wishe

. >> up next, the friendship between herbert hoover and harry truman. this event was part of the herbert hoover presidential library conference. it is 45 minutes. >> welcome back. for the second half of our conference, starting off this afternoon is a paper by dr. lisa payne ocean. she is a professor of history at des moines area community college. she received her masters degree in women's studies from eastern michigan university and a doctorate from iowa state university in agricultural history and rural studies. author of three books.

bush $19, herbert hoover $10, george herbert walker bush $9, which turns out to be the lowest. abraham lincoln, which is not part of the federal system harry , $15. truman is the lowest at $8. the highest is reagan, $29. some of the non-government places like mount vernon house is $18. james madison is $22. what you think of a $29 entrance fee per person? anthony: the money is primarily going to the foundation, the -- not to the national archives, number one. some folks in the national archives they say, well, our , role is to preserve and make available the records and we have appropriated funds for that. the foundations get to charge their portion of admission to help defray their costs. most of the exhibits are, the stuff of the exhibit, right, physical, the screens and the printed materials and the cases, those are paid for by the foundation. the people who work on the exhibits, who help curate are a mix. there is a mix of federal and private dollars. they believe the foundations are meant to help support the ongoing efforts at public programming and exhibits at speaker ser

. >>> residents in bucks county gathered at herbert hoover elementary school in a march against hate. a racist message was discovered on school grounds saying a certain kind of student was in the welcome. >> we are thrilled there are so many people here, members of the community, parents, teachers and students to demonstrate well not tolerate hate in any form. >> police are looking for anyone responsible for the vandalism at the school along with similar locations in the township. >> president trump and the democrats are together on a deal protecting young people from deportation. a joint statement was released, we agree to enshrine daca and package onboarder security excluding the wall. >> it was disputed on twitter. if the deal holds this would mark the second time in two weeks, trump has bypassed republicans to deal with pelosi and schumer directly. >>> republican controlled house aproorvegd a borrowing package with no new taxes. instead the measure plugs the state's $2.2 billion budget gap with the loan and money allocated for mass transit, it could affect septa and environmental

of may 28, morning 1945, this would end herbert hoover's 12 year isolation from the white house. a meeting in the oval office would last 55 minutes. the creative friendship would last until hoover's death in 1964. hoover was asked to write -- and he loved to write memorandums -- and it was several pages. this is just a couple sentences. "i saw president truman this morning. he asked me to tell him what i thought of the food situation. i replied the situation was degenerating all over the world, partly due to the war and partly to mismanagement. he had to take it as it is and there is no time to bother with recrimination as to what might have been." subsistencences -- meant hunger, and hunger meant communism. truman would always be brief, pithy. he would write, "dear hoover, thank you for your memorandum. it will be very useful to me. ps, i appreciate it very much your coming to see me. it gave me a list." at his private writing, truman would write "saw herbert hoover day before yesterday and had a pleasant instructive conversation on food and the general troubles of u.s. presiden

that would push herbert hoover dike to its absolute limit. the florida governor has ordered mandatory evacuations for a half dozen towns around the lake's southern edge. that's on the advice of the army corps. those mandatory evacuations start tomorrow morning. there's a lot to watch tonight. that's one of the crucial structures that's going to be under profound stress by what's about to hit southern florida and what continues to tear through the caribbean tonight. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's

. >> reporter: she lives near the herbert hoover dike holding back water from lake coca choeby. 40,000 at risk if that dike fails, as happened in new orleans during katrina. this is not a case of you just crossing your fingers then. >> no, it's not. and i hope i don't have to regret say that. >> reporter: a warning the florida governor is issuing tonight. >> the biggest risk on the dike at okeechobee is too much rain. that's why they're lowering levels. >> reporter: lake okeechobee so large it's visible from outer space, more than 700 square miles. now the race to lower water levels, critical because with just one foot of rain from irma, the lake will rise more than three feet. the dike 90 years in the making is in desperate need of critical repairs. a $1.5 billion fix is now under way. the army corps of engineers recognizes the potential. their own report says depending on the potential location of a breach, the life loss, economic and adverse environmental consequences of a breach are considered very high. >> the floods would potentially inundate entire communities, and this is, of c

. >> reporter: she lives near the herbert hoover dike holding back water from lake okeechobee. 40,000 at risk if that dike fails, as happened in new orleans during katrina. this is not a case of you just crossing your fingers then. >> no, it's not. and i hope i don't have to regret saying that. >> reporter: a warning the florida governor is issuing tonight. >> the biggest risk on the dike at okeechobee is too much rain. that's why they're lowering levels. >> reporter: lake okeechobee so large it's visible from outer space, more than 700 square miles. now the race to lower water levels, critical because with just one foot of rain from irma, the lake will rise more than three feet. the dike 90 years in the making is in desperate need of critical repairs. a $1.5 billion fix is now under way. the army corps of engineers recognizes the potential. their own report says depending on the potential location of a breach, the life loss, economic and adverse environmental consequences of a breach are considered very high. >> the floods would potentially inundate entire communities, and this is, o

at his private writing, truman would write "saw herbert hoover day before yesterday and had a pleasant instructive conversation on food and the general troubles of u.s. presidents two in particular. we discussed our prima donnas and what makes them. some of the boys are having problems with their dignity and prerogative. it is hell when a man gets in close association with the president." truman likes to use hell a lot in his writing. historians have faulted him for the exact details of this meeting. certainly he recorded the spirit of the occasion. the call, the respect, the urgency, the drama, and even the humor. he noted that hoover rumor the way to the oval office. that hoover remembered the way to the oval office. announcer: watch this and other american history programs on our website, where all our video is archived at c-span.org/history. >> questions frame their journey through the gayry. -- gallery. how do people become revolutionary. when they come back to statute of king george iii they should be able to answer those questions. the second question how did the revolution surv

if the herbert hoover dike on lake okeechobee fails, that would put 40,000 people at risk for flooding. the dike holds back water from the massive lake, which is just northwest of miami. the dike currently is undergoing a $1.5 billion repair effort. right now the state is bracing to lower the lake's water levels before the storm hits. >>> amazon will sell you just about anything, but now it's asking cities to do the selling. the company wants to build a second u.s. headquarters and city officials tell us philadelphia will throw its hat into the ring. philly mayor jim kenney tweeted, quote, we think philadelphia would be a prime location for amazon that would make people smile. look forward to submitting a diploma. end quote. and here are some of amazon's requirements. the location must be within 45 minutes of an international airport, have direct access to mass transit and offer tax breaks, grants, and other incentives. >>> parents at a new jersey high school say the administrators handled a possible drinking incident absolutely wrong. a beer can fell from the bleachers during a footba

. >> reporter: she lives near the herbert hoover dike holding back water from lake okeechobee. 40,000 at risk if that dike fails, as happened in new orleans during katrina. this is not a case of you just crossing your fingers then. >> no, it's not. and i hope i don't have to regret saying that. >> reporter: a warning the florida governor is issuing tonight. >> the biggest risk on the dike at okeechobee is too much rain. that's why they're lowering levels. >> reporter: lake okeechobee so large it's visible from outer space, more than 700 square miles. now the race to lower water levels, critical because with just one foot of rain from irma, the lake will rise more than three feet. the dike 90 years in the making is critical repairs. a $1.5 billion fix is now under way. the army corps of engineers recognizes the potential. their own report says depending on the potential location of a breach, the life loss, economic and adverse environmental consequences of a breach are considered very high. >> the floods would potentially inundate entire communities, and this is, of course, certainly s

the former director of presidential library and museum for herbert hoover. this hour-long event is rfa day-long conference titled, presidential partnerships: present -- herbert hoover instrument, and eisenhower. >> it's a great pleasure to introduce the left speaker. timothy walch received an award. he served in various capacities with the national archiv a

hoover. we know from anecdotes that hired help had to go into closets. what happened to african-american cooks in the administration? >> under the rozsival ministration there's more openness and more, rhonda and openness between the staff and first family. it didn't have the rigidity that you saw in hoover and the coolidge administration. coolidge would come in and critique what they're eating and say it seems like everything a lot of food here. he was very nosy. which is not his persona. >> what about the wilson administration? >> even during the wilson administration they still had segregation but wilson was a southerner. a lot of reports of him celebrating the southern food cooked by white house staff. so i don't know about interaction between wilson and the others. where the harding administration. but he love their food. >> so the harding administration did work. >> there seem to be a feeling of calm robbery. harding was big on waffles. he loved waffles. it is a lot of waffles. the cook

one thing i can't say, we know herbert hoover wrote his own speeches and it shows. i will leave it at that. >> my >> >> he clearly lost or it was not a decisive victory i am thinking of the first to you debates like baldwin 65? c and also the doll 1968 at the dnc. >> i am carious of course, this is ideology aside so i am curious from you do you ever are did he knowledge this in his private letters or did it bother him in his private life?. >> first this is misunderstood it was under the democratic convention there was a documentary than it was added to provide commentary for abc bed thedo other networks were showing gavel-to-gavel they didn't like each other and had years before had altercations so time the night of the humphrey nomination and their channel as well whole world was watching and ask him to comment and it got very heated and the question was going around the vietcong flags and the moderator moderator, headed help the moderator but said this is world war ii so we had withwar were demonstrators saying this is day not the flag were viet cong flag with a o

fulfilling an29, ambition that had touched his soul for a decade or longer, herbert hoover became president of the united states. he had done so without ever elective public office. for an hour and a half, he and calvin coolidge stood, sat and walked side-by-side without saying a word to each other. in his inaugural address, hoover paid tribute to his right predecessor.is when the ceremony was over, they said goodbye, and the ex-president went home to new england. announcer 2: you can watch this and other american history programs on our website where the video is archived. that is c-span.org/history. this year marks the 100th anniversary of buffalo bill's death at the buffalo -- and the buffalo bills center hosted a symposium. western historian paul hutton delivered the keynote address. he described how william cody, best known as buffalo bill became a symbol of the frontier , and the american perception of western culture. this is just over an hour. >> welcome, everyone, to the final event of what has been a terrific three days. you know when you start to plan these things, and you think

obama said i haven't spent a lot of time thinking about failed presidency and mccain said herbert hoover. make of that what you will but there we are. he has a very strong connection and has a sense that history is a mystery into the idea that anything is magical in the sense if we say a few words or do one thing everything will be perfect that's something that lincoln resisted and jackson resisted. i think with many great presidents have in common is the appreciation of the tragedy of history. we are never going to work all this out if you are a religious perhaps one day they will wipe the tears from their eyes but if you are completely secular there will be something. what lincoln and jackson understood and i think obama understands and certainly senator mccain understands life and politics are not going toto ever be perfect. the kingdom of god is not at hand just because obama won. sorry. i've been on some college campuses recently you can tell some of the kids are puzzled that disease is still with us. [laughter] obama has the capacity to be an incredibly transformational president.

herbert hoover knew that it would be a terrible mistake to have the army go across the river and into the main camp. and he had an odd sense to macarthur telling him, do not cross the bridge. do not have your troops go into that camp. and george van horne mosley made sure that the order did not reach macarthur. >> what was the motive? >> he felt that the bonus marchers were ravel and should be driven out of washington with the bayonet. people believe that the army burned down the camp. it didn't. it was the washington police who burned down the camp. >> is macarthur subject to any official reprimand as a consequence? >> no. his very able aide dwight d. eisenhower produced an official report that completely exonerated the army. >> when the japanese attacked building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral... ...from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their... ...website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. build a better website - in under an hour. with gocentral from godaddy. again and again. one day, he was told he had autism. he got help a

that's the worst rate of any president since the great depression and herbert hoover. we need to get the economy growing and congress knows that. the american people know it, and we need tax relief. >> bret: you have the freedom caucus signing on as a block, but there are some on capitol hill concerned about how you're going to pay for it. what's going to happen? is it going to be deficit neutral? will you increase the deficit or the national debt? >> the president is committed to cleaning up the tax code. it's far too complicated. by stupefying the tax code, you're going to get rid of many deductions which is our way of paying for it. many of the wealthy have the best tax rates once taking advantage of the deductions. cleaning it up, we're going to raise revenue. people are lecturing on deficit neutrality went over the obama presidency we added $10 trillion to the debt. in the previous 230 years, we had $1020 in debt. over the last eight years, we've doubled the national debt and those same democrats are going to lecture and safe got to make sure it's deficit neutral.

hoover and franklin roosevelt and extended to the present. the library of congress still has, as a single institution, has more residential papers that any other institution. we don't have papers of every andident before hoover roosevelt. john quincy adams and john adams' papers are at the nasa chooses historical society -- massachusetts historical society, and another state has rutherford b. hayes and others. we have the most significant collection of papers in one place. more treasures can be found in these papers. this is a copy of the dunlap broadside inside the washington papers. it is technically a fragment because you see the bottom -- the dunlap broadside was the first printing of the american copies orn, about 100 so were done and sent to different colonies are they sent one to king george the third. i guess they wanted him to read it. this will have their copy in england. -- they still have their copy in england. there are 200 today. one went on the market a few years back and sold for over $1 million, so it can get you an idea. thi

and the herbert hoover dike holding the water is in danger of breaching. a lot of people nearby did decide to leave. but there are some waiting out there. our mig well marquez spoke to some of the people. >> reporter: in central florida, entire families fleeing the path of the storm. how old are you? >> 5. >> reporter: 5? how do you feel right now? >> reporter: we're leaving she says in creole. much of the county in palm beach is under mandatory evacuation. where are you going? >> i don't know exactly where they're going to take us. >> reporter: the county here is rural, agricultural, immigrants and largely poor. many people without cars of their own met in a local staging area to be bussed with police escorts to higher ground. if a storm hits here and destroys everything, what happens to this community, what happens to these people? >> it goes down. it goes down. destroys everything. there won't be any work for, i don't know, years, the mill will shut down. the school. it will really, really destroy the whole town. >> reporter: emergency workers preparing

. >> well, it's been a pleasure speaking with lynn smith, audiovisual archivist at the herbert hoover presidential museum in west branch, iowa. thanks so much. >> thank you, bill. >>> sunday night on "q & a" adam founder and ceo of "open the books" on how taxpayers' dollars are spent and the need for government transparency. >> veterans affairs we audited their checkbook for the last four years. last summer we found during a period where up to 1,000 sick veterans died while waiting to see a doctor that the va spent $20 million on a high-end art portfolio. it was 27-foot christmas trees, priced like cars, $21,000. it was sculptures priced like five-bedroom homes. it was two sculptures for $700,000 procured by a va center that serves blind veterans. it was a cubed rock skel p tour all in with landscaping for $1.2 million. this is the type of waste that's in our government >>> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q & a." >>> on lectures in history, emory university professor felix harcourt teaches a class on how conspiracy theories about ufos shaped american culture. he begins in th

hoover and franklin roosevelt and extended to the present. the library of congress still has, as a single institution, has more presidential papers than any other institution. we don't have papers of every president before hoover and roosevelt. john quincy adams and john adams' papers are at the massachusetts historical society and the ohio historical society has rutherford b. hayes and others. we have the most significant collection of papers in one place. more treasures can be found in these papers. this is a copy of the dunlap broadside inside the washington papers. it is technically a fragment because you see the bottom -- -- the bottom has been cut off. the dunlap broadside was the first printing of the american declaration, about 100 copies or so were done and sent to different colonies are they sent one to king george iii. i guess they wanted him to read it. they still have their copy in england. there are 200 today. one went on the market a few years back and sold for over $1 million, so it can get you an idea. this is washington's pe

hoover dike, built in 1928 after a hurricane caused lake okeechobee to overflow, killing 3,000 people in the process. by 2006, it was decades old, springing leaks. a state panel of engineers warned that it posed a grave and imminent danger to the people in the environment of south florida. they did test scenarios and found in that levee failed the surrounding area could be under

hoover dike. so we haven't been faced with flooding from the lake in the recent history. so this is something a little new for us. the path of the storm is a little worrisome and we've had conversations. we're on the conference calls with the core of engineer and war management district. we're a little more fortunate on the north edge of the lake. and the north side so that helps us a little distant. the lake is not as close to the dike on the north as it is on the south. and the amount of rain we've been predicted in the national hurricane center has told us we're going to get is not really a problem but the wind and wind action on the lake is a concern to us. we've been assured by the core of engineer that the dike is structurally sound. our only concern is if we get water coming over the dike. as long as the dike is not breached, that should not cause a catastrophic flooding, i would think, in our area. but we will be briefed again. we have twice daily briefings at the emergency management cent

the only other successful business person to become president was herbert hoover, who is not a great advertisement for being a good president. this impatience with institutions, this goes very much in line with impatience that a ceo would have. the difference between business and politics is, in business, you can fire people who are causing your trouble. the president can't fire the supreme court or the senate majority leader. trump is running against it. as someone who is brand-new to politics, he has not accepted this. i'm not sure at the age of 71 he is going to change. he still hopes he can change the institutions. >> we have been processing the flurry of news over the last eight months. since you guys are paid to imagine the unimaginable, what has gone as you have expected and what is different over the last eight months? >> getting neil gorsuch into the supreme court was expected. he was going to pick a conservative and that is going to have a lasting impact. i see it as his biggest success. i thought the twitter use would get toned down. i had a fantasy that his daughter would

the herbert hoover dike. this is not something that has not been gone unplanned for in the past. we have a plan to go into the keys, exactly as administrator long is doing right now. that is getting aircraft carriers and other large ships that can bring resources in. >> we'll talk to administrator long later on in the broadcast. david, just initials of getting people to leave, the folks who decide to say, who say they can ride it out, we hear from first responders, that can be a drain on resources. they think they're doing it for themselves. that can have a ripple effect on first responders needing to spend time to rescue them. how much of a problem is that for emergency personnel? >> it ends up being a large problem. as we talked in the earlier segment, what happens if communications goes down? now we have someone who needs he help. how do they get that notice out? people have to think beyond i just want to ride the storm out. what happens when the first responders come into a dangerous area to have to bring you out? that is taking resources from other folks that perhaps need 91

you know, we've got some concerns that we'll have water overflowing from the top of the herbert hoover dike around the like. for that reason, we've worked with our partners there and with the governor's office to issue mandatory evacuation of all of the communities surrounding like okeechobee. that includes the city of bell glade and some of the smaller communities there. we're currently moving them out on some of our public buses, and we've got about -- we're closing in on about 12,000 people in our shelters tonight. >> we of course saw some of this in houston with those two reservoirs that were overtopped, and people who didn't expect increased flooding got it. so a lot of this is going to depend on what that storm surge looks like in palm beach county and how flooded things are and how quickly they can drain. but there may end up being people farther inland, as you're saying, who may get more flooding than they expect if something goes wrong with the hoover dike. >> right. and, you know, i mean we've got assurances from the army corps of engineers at this time that we should not hav

mccain instantly said herbert hoover. make of that what you will. there you are. he has a very strong connection -- the cover of "news week" is' obama and linton. he has a sense, i think, with lincoln, that history is a mystery and the idea that anything is magical in the sense of if we say a few words or do one thing, everything will be perfect, that is something that lincoln resisted jackson resisted. i think what -- fdr. i think what people -- what many great presidents have in common is an appreciation of the tragedy of history. we're never going work all this out. if you're religious, perhaps one day god will wipe all tears from their eyes, but if you're a completely secular issue guess just not. there'll be something. what lincoln understood, what jackson understood and i think what obama understands and certainly senator mccain understands, is that life is not -- life and politics are not going to ever be perfect. ... >> we have underestimated obama over and over again. he's been there with the blackberry that they are getting ready to take away from him. j

anthony: the herbert hoover presidential library. brian: how long was a drive from that? anthony: more than a day because it was a pilot. -- it was inas iowa. west branch has the historic hoover site, with a blacksmith shop and quicker meeting shop. he only lived there for a short period of time. he and henry hoover are buried there, as well. at the first three libraries, the archivist set a high bar because they were interested in helping, but they were also interested in summary coming to ask about their history as opposed to policy they have gone over. they were inordinately hopeful, just in saying, you should look at this film will look at the series, but talk on breaks. was able to interview most of that staff, sometimes staying late afterwards. i got to speak to the director and they were helpful in making sure i had what i needed to tell the story. brian: how long would you stay at each of these? anthony: first time was probably four or five days. over the 12 year period i took to write the book, i spent a month in each of the libraries except george w. bush, which

and the only real successful business person to become president was herbert hoover. who is not a really good advertisement for being a great president. but i think he is described as impatient with institution. it goes very much in line with the impatience at a ceo would have. the difference between business and talk politics is that -- he cannot fire the senate majority leader or the supreme court. he has to live with them. and trump is running up against this. as someone who is brand-new to politics, he has not apparently accepted this and i'm not sure that at the age of 71, he is inclined to change his ways. i think he still hope they can change the institutions rather than having institutions change him. >> we have all been processing the flurry of news in the first eight most of the administration. i can think of nothing else but going in with a twitter -- and saint my wife did you just see what donald trump just said? what has gone as you expected about the first eight months and what has been different? >> getting neil gorsuch into supreme court is as expected

that would push herbert hoover dike to its absolute limit. the florida governor has ordered mandatory evacuations for a half dozen towns around the lake's southern edge. that's on the advice of the army corps. those mandatory evacuations start tomorrow morning. there's a lot to watch tonight. that's one of the crucial structures that's going to be under profound stress by what's about to hit southern florida and what continues to tear through the caribbean tonight. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> i'm so glad you mentioned the army corps of engineers. they have enormous responsibilities around this country and around the world, and responsibilities that most of us just ignore, pay no attention to most of the time. usually because they're doing their job so well. >> yeah. >> they've had some failures as everyone does, but what they're up against as this thing approaches and what they'll be up against after this is just possibly incal cue labl at this mome